How do they do it

[jim1174]

Some times when you look at photo of a male celebrity on the cover of a magazine like People magazine you cant see any facial hair at all not even little black dots you might see after shaving. How do they do it? Do they shave a special way, put makeup on or use a computer program to get rid of it ?

 

[redtippmann]

Probably photoshop. Every picture on a cover of a magazine has probably gone through PS.

 

[manaheim]

Lookup "photoshop airbrushing tutorial" on google.

 

[Josh66]

Probably photoshop. Every picture on a cover of a magazine has probably gone through PS.

Either that or they aren't really men...

I don't know if I would want my stubble cloned out...

 

[UUilliam]

if you zoom into the image you will see the hair, even on images of females.. believe it or not.. they have facial hairs!!! just they are really light

 

[SrBiscuit]

makeup too.

 

[Dao]

I believe most of the magazine cover photos went through a lot of processing. So the image shown on the cover of the magazine may not be what it looks like in real life.

For example, like this one

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/39/2007/07/340x_redbookcoveranime0707.gif

 

[JerryPH]

If you were to place the picture on the front cover and place them beside the real person, they are often so dissimilar that you'd swear it was someone else!

Have you ever seen the amount of chopping done to the face of someone? There was a youtube video time-lapse... though beautiful looking, the final result was NOTHING like the original shot.

 

[IgsEMT]

Lookup "photoshop airbrushing tutorial" on google.

look also at Kelby Training. He has a 2 part tutorial start-finish of photo/model retouching

 

[IgsEMT]

Here's the link Scott Kelby Training | Digital Photography | Photography Portrait Tips | Digital Photo Retouching | NAPP | Kelby Training
As said before though, you can google for specific points/lessons but if you willing to pay, he's doing pretty good job putting the whole picture into perspective and together.

 

[JayClark79]

I think pretty much every image in most magazines has some sort of PP done to it.

 

[ocular]

Maybe they use a pumice stone haha.. Nah makeup artists and photoshop.

 

[UUilliam]

Now a question for OP

why do you want to know this? do you want baby smooth skin?
or is it you wanna learn how to make a photolook like the person has no hair?

 

[isaac alongi]

check out "portrait professional" it will take everything off with the click of a mouse.... if you like that look....?

 

[Reese's PB Luver]

They take an airbrush with makeup inside it to the person's face before the shot. Then, the do a lot of post-processing to the photo. Like others said, there is SO much done to make the ppl look good that they look very different in person! It is sad when teen girls try to look like the ppl on magazine covers 'cause it is fake and they can never achieve that look, but they sometimes do bad stuff to try (such as make themselves stick-thin). Yes, they Photoshop weight off the models/stars, too*. Sometimes they also adjust their facial bone structure and stuff, too, to try to get them to look "perfect".

You may remember years ago when the mother of those septuplets (McCoughey or something?) was on the cover of "TIME" after the babies were born. Some of her teeth were messed up, at wrong angles, and "TIME" didn't want that imperfect look on their cover, so they Photoshopped the photo to give her perfectly aligned teeth. They got some flak for that. (Although, I think she got free braces out of it from a local orthodontist who donated his services.)

[*I admit I have done this before, although the model was actually Kate Moss skinny in real life. I didn't take the photo and the angle she was posed at revealed a little pooch that was distracting, so I Photoshopped it off. In real life, I bet she'd have died without that weight, LOL!]